Using mtpaint 3.44.89 or better it is possible to add some text
such as copyright notice to the top of a bunch of images stored in a folder.
The text is pasted at (0,0). This can be changed in script.
Modify the script if you wish. You can change the suffix and you can hange the image format for example png.

Instructions:
1) Put all images (jpegs in this example) in a folder my_images in /root.
2) Make color A a bright color such as yellow
3) Make and then save some yellow text to hard disk clipboard so it is available.
Menu > Edit > Save Clipboard > 1
4) Run script ...

mtPaint tuto video .avi loaded. everething looks less complicated, however you speak english, and ... loud.
But i understand Quite everything thanks to images.
It will be my first lesson._________________Passenger Pelo ! don't ask him to repair the aircraft. Don't use him as a demining dog .... pleeease.

Is there any chance that this single step can be broken out into an even simpler tutorial? I have managed three circles and two squares to make a snowman with a square hat. No arms and all lines have minimal width (no thickness).

Can mtPaint crop, re-size, move selection, create collage, etc? It was actually the collage that started me on mtpaint until I found that PeasyGlue can stictch together pictures. I still prefer to be able to arrange pictures graphically, that blindly. Thus my attempted quest into mtPaint.

Create a new RGB document.
Fill with a color that you desire for your text (in this example red).
Paste the clipboard into this new document
Effects > Transform color
Set contrast to very high . Slightly increase brightness and saturation.
Apply any other effects you wish.

Result of pasting into a red document.....

________________________________________________________

To make a cleaner outline of text characters

To make a cleaner outline of text characters use the 'paste swap' feature.
Make a text character (untick background) ,
then paste the text character into red document.

Had a little fun doodling.
The thing you did before with mirroring can be done in a slightly different way.
If it's a square canvas (say 600x600) and you draw something in top-left quarter of image you can just duplicate layer and go to Image->Rotate clockwise
Repeat two more times till you have it in all quarters of image.
That's what I did for lines in corners outside the circle here.

Here's another quick one
The big circle is made on first layer but everything else is added on new layers then copied and rotated.
With a little effort you can make interesting decorative images.
In gimp, after this step, I used to create a box out of this with map object function.

Hint for using Settings / Layers windows:
I usually make them top level windows then shade them when needed to get them out of the way so you only see a titlebar and expand when needed (a simple scroll up or down on titlebar in jwm or double-click in fluxbox - I guess this can be customized in window manager).

Separate windows were also the most hated feature in gimp but I see them as feature and don't use a single window mode even if introduced: this way I can maximize the image window and shade/unshade the toolbox window.

Where can I read more about scripting abilities and what can I do with both image edited in mtpaint and what through commandline only?
EDIT: Found some info in other thread about cmd commands matching menu items, that's great, but how do you copy a layer for example or set transparent colour? This is only available from Layers window but not from menu.
Great job on scripting though, this will be very usefull._________________puppy.b0x.me stuff mirrored HERE or HERE

but how do you copy a layer for example or set transparent colour? This is only available from Layers window but not from menu.

Which is precisely the problem.

How to integrate layers window, settings toolbar window, and tools toolbar, into the system, still is an open question.
They are controlled through "View" submenu, and technically could be made addressable through it... but wouldn't that be a little bit illogical? To be calling all the functions of these windows through "-view/..." paths, that is?

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